Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not bother me now at all . |
| 2 | But I find the whole performance so persuasive that this really does not bother me much , and I imagine other listeners will feel the same way . |
| 3 | Londoners have for long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well . |
| 4 | A later article will argue that this lowering of costs does not eliminate them altogether but rather transfers them . |
| 5 | VDU 13 moves the cursor to the left edge of the window , but does not move it vertically . |
| 6 | For some reason , this strange conversation does not strike me as at all odd . |
| 7 | ‘ Just because they are small does not make them less precious . |
| 8 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 9 | But however effective these arguments may be in political debate , that does not make them necessarily adequate as theoretical explanations of racism . |
| 10 | These emerged as the movement represented by the Enlightenment itself became more self-critical and less brashly confident in its own rationalism ; but that does not make them any the less significant or challenging for theology . |
| 11 | Its frequency however does not make it right . |
| 12 | But that does not make it right to encourage disaster in search of diversion . |
| 13 | ‘ But it does not make it right . |
| 14 | Vehemently , she added , ‘ But that does not make it right ! |
| 15 | The mere fact that people are convinced that freedom , for example , is a good thing , even that God desires it for us , does not make it more than wishful thinking . |
| 16 | But to say that it is hard does not make it less desirable , neither does it mean that governments should abandon the attempt . |
| 17 | This does not make it any the less disturbing and below we will discuss contemporary styles of delinquency in greater detail . |
| 18 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 19 | On the other hand , the fact that a threat is couched in polite and regretful language does not make it any less a threat , and there is little value in the distinction which has been suggested between a warning and a threat . |
| 20 | Whilst the issue of ‘ crimes of the powerful ’ , to use Pearce 's ( 1976 ) evocative phrase , is now often portrayed as a left-wing cliche , this does not make it any the less a problem . |
| 21 | responsibility analysis ’ which broadly takes the existing political and economic structure of society for granted , or which does not relate it very strongly to individual families ' difficulties . |
| 22 | Basle 's basic principle is that if the country exporting a waste does not regard it as hazardous , it does not need to ask the consent of the importing country in order to ship it . |
| 23 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 24 | Roman does not want you here at all , Signorina Hastings . |
| 25 | It is difficult to judge the material of the shroud from its marble representation , for sculpture does not lend itself easily to such subtleties . |
| 26 | The dairy-type conformation does not lend itself readily to beef production and though steers will fatten they grow rather slowly . |
| 27 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 28 | However the very nature of weaponry does not lend itself so readily to such analysis . |
| 29 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ the ATB does not promote itself well enough ’ ( 20 to 30 made this comment ) |